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Trump's updated travel ban to have minimal input from national security
Source: The Guardian
Trump's updated travel ban to have minimal input from national security
Goal of new order is to bolster original initiative against legal
and constitutional scrutiny, rather than revise it in a substantive
fashion, say sources
Spencer Ackerman in New York
Friday 17 February 2017 17.43 GMT
Donald Trump’s controversial executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries is being tightened up to get around legal and constitutional objections with minimal input from the National Security Council, the Guardian has learned.
The White House policy director, Stephen Miller, is at the helm as the process for refugee and immigration policy is going through the domestic policy council, which does not include most of the government’s foreign policy or security-related agencies.
Trump made clear at his chaotic 77-minute press conference on Thursday “we’re issuing a new executive action next week that will comprehensively protect our country” at the same time as fighting the executive order which was blocked by the courts.
The goal of the new order is to bolster a signature initiative against ongoing legal and constitutional scrutiny, rather than revise it in a substantive fashion, relax its restrictions or consider any deleterious consequences it has on national security, according to Guardian sources.
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Goal of new order is to bolster original initiative against legal
and constitutional scrutiny, rather than revise it in a substantive
fashion, say sources
Spencer Ackerman in New York
Friday 17 February 2017 17.43 GMT
Donald Trump’s controversial executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries is being tightened up to get around legal and constitutional objections with minimal input from the National Security Council, the Guardian has learned.
The White House policy director, Stephen Miller, is at the helm as the process for refugee and immigration policy is going through the domestic policy council, which does not include most of the government’s foreign policy or security-related agencies.
Trump made clear at his chaotic 77-minute press conference on Thursday “we’re issuing a new executive action next week that will comprehensively protect our country” at the same time as fighting the executive order which was blocked by the courts.
The goal of the new order is to bolster a signature initiative against ongoing legal and constitutional scrutiny, rather than revise it in a substantive fashion, relax its restrictions or consider any deleterious consequences it has on national security, according to Guardian sources.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/17/trump-updated-travel-ban-minimal-input-national-security